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Amazon Eve: This model's not to scale

Amazon Eve, a towering six-foot-eight model, has taken something she used to be ashamed of and turned it into her career: her height.

These days the California native is internationally known as the world’s tallest model, travelling the globe for commercial modelling and endorsement gigs, while speaking out about the importance of being comfortable in one’s skin no matter how big their shoe size.

Six-foot-eight model Amazon Eve hopes to make her world's tallest supermodel title official later this month with an official approval from the Guiness Book of Records. Here she stands next to a male model who is five-foot-eight. (AMAZON EVE)

On March 17, the 33-year-old beauty, who won’t disclose her real name but is professionally known as Amazon Eve — will make her “World’s Tallest Model” title official by going before Guinness Book of World Records officials in Milan, Italy.

But her celebrity status is light years away from how she used to feel about herself.

Pretty terrible, Eve tells the Star.

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When she was 14, she jumped from 5’9” to 5’11’’. The next four years she grew nine inches.

“That was traumatic,” Eve says over the phone from Redondo Beach, Calif. “When I was 16, I had a size 11 shoe. By 18, I had a 14 shoe size. (People would say) ‘that’s not a woman, that’s a man.’ ”

Modelling agencies told her was too tall to be considered a mainstream model. Eve was also told she was too tall to be in movies as a lead actress, unless she wanted to play character roles as a basketball player or a monster.

Instead after failed attempts of acting in B movies where she played supersized freaks, Eve turned to law school working toward becoming a paralegal.

“All your life you felt bad about your height . . . I took a job where I could hide,” says Eve, who eventually left law in 2005 to try her hand at fitness.

But soon enough the U.S. markets took a plunge, and Eve’s gym career sputtered out.

To make ends meet she found herself working as a personal trainer where she met a professional dominatrix. The dominatrix encouraged her to follow suit. By late 2009 Eve was hooked, working as both a dominatrix and modelling for magazines.

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Eve shot to fame in November 2009 when she appeared on the cover of Australian magazine Zoo Weekly.

These days, Eve still dabbles in some dominatrix work but spends the majority of her time dedicated to modelling, working as a celebrity endorsement for tall women’s clothing lines and shoes in the United States and Australia. She’s modelled for online shoe company Barefoot Tess and energy drink, Damzl Fuel. Eve has headlined in 27 countries, appearing in commercials, magazine spreads and featured on TV news shows.

“It took a personal dominatrix to help me with my body image and self-esteem,” Eve says. “I was able to take back my own power.

Eve says: “2009 was when I formed Amazon Eve; 2009 was when I created her.” Eve remains mum on her past, choosing not to discuss details about her upbringing or her real name, only to say that her parents are both equally tall — her mother is 6’1’’ while her father is 6’7” — and another model uses her real name.

She hopes to use her Guinness Book of World Records title to reach even more fans, and spread the importance of different types of beauty.

“I’ve made a career out of it . . . there is no “model” size. Beauty is across all different sizes and shapes,” Eve says.

And she is setting her sights high. Eve foresees a future filled with a book and speaking tour, a reality show and fashion line.

Still, some things bother her.

“I have to date guys who are shorter than me. There is a lot of pressure for women to be shorter than men,” Eve says.

Until her 6’10” Prince Charming shows up, Eve dates shorter men who don’t seem to mind one bit that she’s taller than them. Currently she’s dating three men all of whom are under 6’5”.

And does she wear heels when she’s out and about, especially on dates?

“I do. What is a few more inches when I’m this height,” she says, with a laugh.

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